Spider

[Dao]

Great! Now you can take more photos of model without worry about it.

 

[sm4him]

Yep, I think that's it! I should've thought of that--I've found several of them and have pics of a few (albeit all with my old point-and-shoot).

But now, you HAVE to go back down there and track it down to find the web! They're so cool, because...well, because they are *funnels*. I have a picture, somewhere, of one coming out of its funnel web, looking straight down into the web...too cool!!

 

[Joel_W]

We have roaches here in Ontario. When we first moved here, we visited a Chinese restaurant in Alliston ON, ordered food & while waiting watched roaches walking the chair rail of the wainscoting.

I know bakeries in London ON, where I grew up, also had them.

Ron, I sure hope you never went back to eat in that Chinese restaurant, nor bought any baked goods from those bakeries.

 

[One2]

We have roaches here in Ontario. When we first moved here, we visited a Chinese restaurant in Alliston ON, ordered food & while waiting watched roaches walking the chair rail of the wainscoting.

I know bakeries in London ON, where I grew up, also had them.

I hope you got up and walked out? . No way I could eat at a place after seeing a cockroach there.

 

[blackrose89]

I agree, nice capture! I love taking insect pictures. I used to be our troop counselor for the Insect Merit Badge--most of them don't bother me at all. I remember one time, all the 13- and 14-year old boys at summer camp, running up to MY tent, yelling because there was a giant spider in one of THEIR tents...It WAS humongous, but it was just a wolf spider. Wish I'd gotten a picture of it!Snakes don't much bother me either.I'll pick up spiders and most of the insects, as long as I know they're not poisonous. But the one thing I simply CANNOT abide: cockroaches/palmetto bugs. Oh yeah, those things are little insect demons straight out of the pit of hell!! The scourge of the earth. It is the reason I would NEVER consider living in Florida or Texas or S. Carolina. Even the "little" cockroaches we get here in TN, ugh!! Now, THEY make me scream like a girl! Don't know why, I simply can't abide them.My rule is, if I see a cockroach in my house, I kill it. If I see a SECOND cockroach, I move.

I've only seen a cockroach once in my life. It was at a mall in Delaware (I think). My mom grabbed a pair of paints that were hanging up on a circular rack - she just pulled the pants out to show me and there was this HUGE cockroach on the pants. Needless to say I didn't buy anything from that mall!!I don't know if we have cockroaches up here but I've never seen one here!

Wow! Lucky! Our palmetto bug friends are always out and about! My husband shot one (with a gun not a camera lol) in the backyard. That was pretty sweet!

 

[PixelRabbit]

Yep, I think that's it! I should've thought of that--I've found several of them and have pics of a few (albeit all with my old point-and-shoot).

But now, you HAVE to go back down there and track it down to find the web! They're so cool, because...well, because they are *funnels*. I have a picture, somewhere, of one coming out of its funnel web, looking straight down into the web...too cool!!

Didn't hunt her down intentionally, but found her home anyway so took a few shots ... still icky! Wish her face came out better